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editorWhat drove a man to fatally shoot a couple in Wisconsin and kidnap their teenage daughter? A criminal complaint filed Monday unspools a grisly crime that began when, according to authorities, suspect Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, spotted a girl boarding a school bus. It ended with her escaping Thursday from more than two months of captivity. Prosecutors charged Patterson Monday with kidnapping Jayme and killing her parents. They also charged him with armed robbery. The Associated Press reports Patterson sat expressionless as he appeared in court Monday via video feed from the county jail. Bail was set at $5 million. Detective Jeffrey Nelson and Barron County District Attorney Brian Wright filed the complaint. Police say three sheriff's deputies responded to an emergency call on Oct. 15 and drove to a home west of the city of Barron in northern Wisconsin. One deputy recalled spotting a red vehicle driving away from the home, but did not catch the license plate number of the car. When<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/pQogo1-b3MA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Police Say Wisconsin Man Confesses To Abducting Jayme Closs And Killing Her Parentshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/pQogo1-b3MA/police-say-wisconsin-man-confesses-abducting-jayme-closs-and-killing-her-parents
72073 as http://www.gpbnews.orgMon, 14 Jan 2019 23:00:00 +0000Police Say Wisconsin Man Confesses To Abducting Jayme Closs And Killing Her Parentshttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/police-say-wisconsin-man-confesses-abducting-jayme-closs-and-killing-her-parentsJoseph HernandezWhen someone dies at the hands of police, can local prosecutors be trusted to investigate the cops? Some criminal justice advocates in New Jersey say no. They want police violence to be scrutinized by outside investigators they believe are fairer and more impartial than county prosecutors who may be cozy with local police departments. A bill recently passed by the New Jersey state legislature would require the Attorney General's office to investigate any death at the hands of police or that occurred in the custody of law enforcement, such as inside a jail. Yet the man who would be taking over these investigations in New Jersey — state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal — believes the legislation is a bad idea. "This bill may, in the end, undermine public trust in law enforcement," he said in a hearing before a state Assembly committee earlier this month. Grewal has been a supporter of police accountability. In 2018 he issued a directive requiring police officers to be drug tested and<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/H32M5HOAWf4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>In New Jersey, Deaths At The Hands Of Police May Face Outside Scrutinyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/H32M5HOAWf4/new-jersey-deaths-hands-police-may-face-outside-scrutiny
71185 as http://www.gpbnews.orgTue, 01 Jan 2019 10:00:00 +0000In New Jersey, Deaths At The Hands Of Police May Face Outside Scrutinyhttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/new-jersey-deaths-hands-police-may-face-outside-scrutinyBill ChappellMore law enforcement officers were shot and killed in the line of duty in 2018 than last year, driving a 12 percent overall increase in the number of officers who died on the job, according to preliminary data from The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. "Firearms-related fatalities were the leading cause of officer deaths, with 52 officers shot and killed in 2018," the NLEOMF says. That's a rise from 2017, when guns were involved in 46 officer deaths. The group adds that handguns accounted for the majority of those incidents. So far this year, 144 federal, state and local law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty — a rise from the 129 officers who died on the job in 2017, according to the group's year-end report for 2018 . The gun statistics reverse what had been a steady trend in recent decades, when police officers were more likely to die from car crashes than gunfire. In 2018, 50 officers died from traffic-related incidents, according to the report. There<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/hHifZ2nDqng" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>More Police Officers Died From Gunfire Than Traffic Incidents In 2018, Report Sayshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/hHifZ2nDqng/more-police-officers-died-gunfire-traffic-incidents-2018-report-says
70963 as http://www.gpbnews.orgThu, 27 Dec 2018 15:25:00 +0000More Police Officers Died From Gunfire Than Traffic Incidents In 2018, Report Sayshttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/more-police-officers-died-gunfire-traffic-incidents-2018-report-saysWhen Suhai Aziz Talpur was training to be a police officer, she was ordered to jump off a cliff during an endurance test. She recalls staring seven feet down to the ground. "I said no, I won't jump and break my leg." So her supervisor pushed her. Talpur landed unscathed. Later, her supervisor told her, "The fear is here." Talpur taps her head. "So fight it from here." Talpur, 30, has fought ever since. Now a senior police officer, she has overcome obstacles facing women in conservative Pakistani society and upturned its traditions. She has become a rare Pakistani woman who, if not celebrated exactly for her defiance, is celebrated for what it led to: something that is widely seen as an act of heroism. On Nov. 23, Talpur led a police mission to take down militants who stormed the Chinese consulate compound in Karachi. She is believed to be the first woman to lead such an operation. Amid the flurry of attacks engulfing Pakistan in recent years, the attack stood out because it occurred<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/MuC98StS8yQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>In Pakistan, Female Police Officers Are Rare. This One Quelled A Militant Attackhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/MuC98StS8yQ/pakistan-female-police-officers-are-rare-one-quelled-militant-attack
70669 as http://www.gpbnews.orgFri, 21 Dec 2018 15:14:00 +0000In Pakistan, Female Police Officers Are Rare. This One Quelled A Militant Attackhttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/pakistan-female-police-officers-are-rare-one-quelled-militant-attackCheryl CorleyThe recent shooting deaths of two black men by police have reignited protests about police use of force. In both cases, the men had guns and police wrongly mistook them for suspects. On Thanksgiving night, a white police officer fatally shot 21-year-old Emantic Bradford Jr. at a mall in Hoover, Ala., a Birmingham suburb. Bradford and others were running from a shooting that left two people injured. Some witnesses said during the pandemonium that followed, some of those running away pulled out their guns for their own protection. Police later said Bradford was not an assailant. Earlier in November in Robbins, Ill.,, just outside of Chicago, a police officer fatally shot 26-year-old Jemel Roberson. Roberson was a security guard at a nightclub and had subdued a gunman who wounded others during a fight at the bar. Joe Loughlin, a former assistant police chief in Portland, Maine, has interviewed officers and written a book about deadly police encounters. He says there are no good outcomes<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/QmaOXXAugBg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>More Police Training Key To Determining Who Is A 'Good Guy' With A Gun http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/QmaOXXAugBg/more-police-training-key-determining-who-good-guy-gun
70060 as http://www.gpbnews.orgWed, 12 Dec 2018 16:49:00 +0000More Police Training Key To Determining Who Is A 'Good Guy' With A Gun http://www.gpbnews.org/post/more-police-training-key-determining-who-good-guy-gunMerrit Kennedy<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/FYRyLhXBV3I" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>4 Dead Including Officer, Gunman After Shooting At Chicago Hospitalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/FYRyLhXBV3I/police-officer-critical-condition-after-shooting-chicago-hospital
68710 as http://www.gpbnews.orgMon, 19 Nov 2018 23:43:00 +00004 Dead Including Officer, Gunman After Shooting At Chicago Hospitalhttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/police-officer-critical-condition-after-shooting-chicago-hospitalBill ChappellPolice in Salisbury, England, have arrested a man who, they say, tried to steal the Magna Carta — the 1215 document that established basic tenets of the rule of law. "The Magna Carta has not been damaged and nobody was injured in the incident," Wiltshire Police said. The police say the man set off alarms at the Salisbury Cathedral when he tried to shatter the glass shield that protects the Magna Carta. The document was not damaged, police say. "Only four copies of Magna Carta dating from 1215 have survived the ravages of time and Salisbury Cathedral is proud to be home to the best preserved original manuscript," the cathedral says. From the version of events given by police, it seems the attempted theft was not the work of a master criminal. There were "a number of witnesses" in the cathedral around 5 p.m. local time Thursday when, police say, the man simply attacked the glass box. The suspect, whom police have not publicly identified other than to say he's 45 years old, was arrested<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/fBhGW41EsuU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Man Tried To Steal Magna Carta, 800-Year-Old Symbol Of The Law, Police Sayhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/fBhGW41EsuU/police-say-man-tried-steal-magna-carta-800-year-old-symbol-law
67118 as http://www.gpbnews.orgFri, 26 Oct 2018 12:23:00 +0000Man Tried To Steal Magna Carta, 800-Year-Old Symbol Of The Law, Police Sayhttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/police-say-man-tried-steal-magna-carta-800-year-old-symbol-laweditorUpdated at 4:44 p.m. ET Three people were killed in a workplace shooting Thursday morning in northeast Maryland. Several other people were wounded during the attack at a Rite Aid distribution center. The shooter, identified by the sheriff as Snochia Moseley, 26, of Baltimore County, also died; she shot herself in the head. Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told a news conference, "It appears to be a single weapon that was used, a single handgun. ... We do not believe that there is an additional threat anywhere to our Harford County community." A law enforcement source told Reuters that officials think the shooting may have been tied to a work-related grievance. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center spokeswoman Monica Stone told NPR the hospital admitted four patients with gunshot wounds from the attack in Aberdeen. Stone said two patients were stable, and two seriously injured. Christiana Care Health System spokesman Hiran Ratnayake said one person injured in the shooting was being<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/O_f24A32B-o" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Multiple People Killed And Wounded In Maryland Shootinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/O_f24A32B-o/multiple-people-killed-and-wounded-maryland-shooting
64801 as http://www.gpbnews.orgThu, 20 Sep 2018 20:04:00 +0000Multiple People Killed And Wounded In Maryland Shootinghttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/multiple-people-killed-and-wounded-maryland-shootingCamila DomonoskeUpdated at 8:18 a.m. ET on Sept. 10 A police officer in Dallas has been arrested after she shot and killed a young man inside his own apartment on Thursday night, saying later that she mistakenly believed she had entered her own home. The officer, Amber Guyger, 30, was issued a warrant for manslaughter by the 7th District Court in Dallas County, the Texas Rangers said in a statement on Sunday. "The investigation is ongoing and no additional information is available at this time," the statement said. The victim, Botham Shem Jean, was a 26-year-old black man. The police officer who killed him was a white woman, NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports. Authorities say the police officer had finished a shift and was returning home, still in full uniform, when she apparently entered the wrong apartment — Jean's apartment. The shooting took place at the South Side Flats, a development that says it offers "cutting-edge luxury apartments" near downtown Dallas. It's located just a few blocks from police<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/4q5S_R8EPJQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Officer Arrested For Killing Man In His Apartment; Says She Thought It Was Her Homehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/4q5S_R8EPJQ/dallas-police-officer-kills-man-his-apartment-says-she-thought-it-was-her-home
64011 as http://www.gpbnews.orgFri, 07 Sep 2018 20:08:00 +0000Officer Arrested For Killing Man In His Apartment; Says She Thought It Was Her Homehttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/dallas-police-officer-kills-man-his-apartment-says-she-thought-it-was-her-homeRebecca GrantHow do you get a woman to report to the police that she's been assaulted or abused if she doesn't trust the police to take action? That, says activist Jamila Juna, is a serious problem in Zanzibar. Juma is the executive director of the Zanzibar Female Lawyers Association (ZAFELA), which she helped found in 2003 to provide free legal aid to women and children. When a woman is assaulted in Zanzibar and wants to make a police report, there's a good chance Juma will be involved, in some capacity, as an advocate in her case. And what she's seen over the years has discouraged her. "[Some police officers] don't understand about rape or they think it's a women's issue, so they don't care," Juma says. "There are so many obstacles for women and it takes a special one to go make a claim, but the system is not a friend for them." The police agree with her. "Gender-based violence is persistent in Zanzibar but women are not confident in reporting these issues," says deputy sergeant Mauwa Saleh, a<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/Na53ZOZU460" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>How To Get Women To Trust The Police? 'Gender' Deskshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/Na53ZOZU460/how-get-women-trust-police-gender-desks
62497 as http://www.gpbnews.orgWed, 15 Aug 2018 18:59:00 +0000How To Get Women To Trust The Police? 'Gender' Deskshttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/how-get-women-trust-police-gender-desksMerrit KennedyUpdated at 10:05 p.m. ET A small group of about 25 white supremacist demonstrators rallied next to the White House on Sunday, one year after the "Unite the Right" demonstration by the same organizer turned deadly in Charlottesville, Va. The demonstrators have since left D.C. via Metro , and WAMU's Elly Yu reports that counterprotesters have headed home, too. WAMU's Carmel Delshad reported that hundreds of counterdemonstrators converged in Lafayette Square, the grassy, White House-adjacent park, to meet the white supremacists. As NPR's Tim Mak reported, the counterdemonstrators began gathering in the early afternoon as music played and speakers talked about the importance of their protest. NPR's Jeff Brady told NPR's All Things Considered that though he was in Lafayette Park for the demonstrators' speeches, it was impossible to hear them because of the overwhelming dominance of the counterdemonstrators. According to Delshad, the police presence in the square was heavy: There were about<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/WBbxHFPV9xA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Hundreds Converge In D.C. To Counter Small 'Unite The Right' Rallyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/WBbxHFPV9xA/dc-prepares-white-supremacist-rally-and-counterprotests
62296 as http://www.gpbnews.orgSun, 12 Aug 2018 16:44:00 +0000Hundreds Converge In D.C. To Counter Small 'Unite The Right' Rallyhttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/dc-prepares-white-supremacist-rally-and-counterprotestsKamala Thiagarajanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQiPoygDqvk Earlier this week, we reported on the video from India that, according to Trevor Noah, "won" the Kiki Challenge. It was 39 seconds of two farmers dancing in the mud with their oxen. Now there's another Kiki challenge video making headlines in India — but also raising concerns from the police. It was made by three men in their 20s from Mumbai: Shyam Sharma, a television actor, and his friends Dhruv Shah and Nishant Shah, who run a YouTube channel. Like many people around the world, they responded to the Instagram comic Shiggy, who asked his followers to dance to the lyrics of the Drake song "In My Feelings," which is addressed to a woman named Kiki. On August 3, they uploaded their video on Funcho Entertainment , their YouTube channel. Their intention, they wrote in the descriptor for the video, was to show how people from the different states of India would attempt the Kiki challenge. They say they were trying to poke fun at local stereotypes<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/heiQ_ESfajw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Another 'Kiki Challenge' Video From India Earns 2 Million Views — And 3 Arrestshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/heiQ_ESfajw/another-kiki-challenge-video-india-earns-2-million-views-and-3-arrests
62244 as http://www.gpbnews.orgSat, 11 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000Another 'Kiki Challenge' Video From India Earns 2 Million Views — And 3 Arrestshttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/another-kiki-challenge-video-india-earns-2-million-views-and-3-arrestsKaren Grigsby BatesMelissa DePino didn't take the infamous April video that showed two black men being handcuffed and ejected from a Philadelphia Starbucks—but she agreed to post it. "I know these things happen," the writer says, "but I'd never actually witnessed it myself. And when I saw it I thought 'people need to see this.'" So she uploaded and pressed "send." It got millions of views, and people are still talking about it. Michelle Saahene was in the same Starbucks at the same time, and had been for a while. She, too, witnessed the arrest and thought something was janky. She'd heard the manager tell the police she'd called them because the two men hadn't bought anything, a violation of company policy. One man had been refused the restroom code; the manager told him "restrooms are reserved for customers." But there was a double standard, Saahene says. "There was a gentleman sitting next to me, a white man, for 45 minutes without buying anything. I saw a white woman come in—mid-jog—use the bathroom,<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/I_jccgpxHXg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>When Calling The Po-Po Is A No-Nohttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/I_jccgpxHXg/when-calling-po-po-no-no
60372 as http://www.gpbnews.orgSat, 14 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000When Calling The Po-Po Is A No-Nohttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/when-calling-po-po-no-noGrant Blankenship There has been another death at Georgia’s largest immigration detention facility. Efrain De La Rosa, 40, was the second apparent suicide and the third death overall at the Stewart Immigration Detention Center in Lumpkin in the last 15 months. According to a press release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, De La Rosa died Thursday night from self strangulation. ICE had been holding De La Rosa not long after he was convicted of felony larceny in Wake County, North Carolina in March. He was awating the start of immigration removal proceedings. CoreCivic, the Tennessee based company that runs the center, has come under fire recently for conditions there, i ncluding evidence obtained by the online news outlet The Intercept of solitary confinement, a practice CoreCivic has denied it uses. De La Rosa's is still under investigation by ICE.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/n_ZBn3fqalA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Another Death At Georgia Immigration Detention Centerhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/n_ZBn3fqalA/another-death-georgia-immigration-detention-center
60244 as http://www.gpbnews.orgThu, 12 Jul 2018 20:20:14 +0000Another Death At Georgia Immigration Detention Centerhttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/another-death-georgia-immigration-detention-centereditorNichola Torbett has been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be safe and who gets to feel safe. "I feel, as a white woman, a right to feel comfortable, because the world is kind of made and designed for white people," Torbett said. "So when I don't feel comfortable, I think oh my gosh, I'm not safe." Torbett is a lay leader at First Congregational Church of Oakland, a progressive church in California, that has made a decision to try to stop calling police, especially on people of color. The church — which calls itself First Congo, for short — announced its decision around the same time as a wave of news stories broke about white people calling police on people of color. That included a now infamous incident at Oakland's Lake Merritt, where a white woman called the cops on two black men who were barbecuing. One of the men who was cooking out that day, Kenzie Smith, describes the moment when he realized police had been called on him as terrifying. "In my mind I thought I was<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/vwIiWK6TuJ0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Oakland Church Steps Out On Faith And Pledges To Stop Calling Policehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/vwIiWK6TuJ0/oakland-church-steps-out-faith-and-pledges-stop-calling-police
59117 as http://www.gpbnews.orgTue, 26 Jun 2018 09:04:00 +0000Oakland Church Steps Out On Faith And Pledges To Stop Calling Policehttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/oakland-church-steps-out-faith-and-pledges-stop-calling-policeNina TotenbergUpdated at 5:32 p.m. ET In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that police must obtain a search warrant to access an individual's cellphone location information. The 5-4 decision imposes new limits on law enforcement's ability to get at the increasing amount of data that private companies amass in the modern technological age. Cellphone providers routinely keep location information for customers to help improve service. And until now, the prevailing legal theory was that if an individual voluntarily shares his information with a third party — for instance, by signing up for cellphone service — police can get that information without a search warrant. A near-perfect tool On Friday, the Supreme Court blew a hole in that theory. Writing for the court majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that cellphone location information is a "near perfect" tool for government surveillance, analogous to an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet. The writers of the Constitution, he<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/K34xMGezGyk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>In Major Privacy Win, Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Track Your Cellphonehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/K34xMGezGyk/major-privacy-win-supreme-court-rules-police-need-warrant-track-your-cellphone
58939 as http://www.gpbnews.orgFri, 22 Jun 2018 15:03:00 +0000In Major Privacy Win, Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Track Your Cellphonehttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/major-privacy-win-supreme-court-rules-police-need-warrant-track-your-cellphoneCamila DomonoskeNewly released body camera footage from January shows police officers in Mesa, Ariz., hitting and mocking a 23-year-old man they were taking into custody. It's the third use-of-force controversy for the Phoenix suburb so far this month. The police chief told The Associated Press that the arrest is under review. The video was shared with the press by Bret Royle, a lawyer representing Jose Luis Conde, the man arrested in the video. Royle said that the video shows an arrest that was more brutal than the arresting officers described in their official report. "We're not here trying to seek monetary damages," he said at a press conference Thursday. "We're trying to exonerate Jose of charges brought about by the Mesa police department." Conde, who was unarmed, was charged with narcotics possession, escape, resisting arrest and aggravated assault on police, The Arizona Republic reports . The arresting officers reportedly sustained injuries to their knuckles, arms, hands and knees, resulting in<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/oa-ImlZsd5s" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Another Video Surfaces Of Violent Arrest By Mesa, Ariz., Policehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/oa-ImlZsd5s/another-video-surfaces-violent-arrest-mesa-ariz-police
58428 as http://www.gpbnews.orgFri, 15 Jun 2018 09:35:00 +0000Another Video Surfaces Of Violent Arrest By Mesa, Ariz., Policehttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/another-video-surfaces-violent-arrest-mesa-ariz-policeSasha IngberA police chief and two officers in a small Miami community framed a 16-year-old boy for four burglaries to keep up a perfect score on crime statistics, federal prosecutors said. The indictment was filed on Monday . Prosecutors alleged that former Biscayne Park Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano "caused and encouraged officers to knowingly arrest [the teenager] without a legitimate basis in order to maintain a fictitious 100 percent clearance rate of reported burglaries." Two former patrol officers, Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez, gathered information on four unsolved burglaries, completed arrest affidavits and created a false storyline that the teenager had burglarized the unoccupied homes, prosecutors allege. Atesiano directed them to arrest the teen, identified in the document as T.D., in June 2013, despite officers "knowing that there was no evidence and no lawful basis to support such charges." It is unclear when T.D. was arrested, or what happened next. But less than a month after<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/sdtI-vXJx4s" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Teen Allegedly Framed By Town's Police To Preserve Perfect Arrest Statisticshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/sdtI-vXJx4s/teen-allegedly-framed-towns-police-preserve-perfect-arrest-statistics
58342 as http://www.gpbnews.orgWed, 13 Jun 2018 23:27:00 +0000Teen Allegedly Framed By Town's Police To Preserve Perfect Arrest Statisticshttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/teen-allegedly-framed-towns-police-preserve-perfect-arrest-statisticsCamila Domonoskehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNIohJfdvEc Three police officers and a sergeant in Mesa, Ariz., have been placed on leave after the police chief was shown surveillance video footage of multiple officers surrounding an unarmed black man and punching him repeatedly. The beating has prompted protests in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix. Chief Ramon Batista told the media that he was not aware of the incident until a member of the community informed him. He released the footage publicly, in the name of transparency. "It is important for me to convey to our community that their trust in us is paramount, and that's why I want to be transparent in talking about it," Batista told Fox 10 . "This is not unnoticed. This is going to be investigated." The man in the video , which was recorded May 23, has been identified as Robert Johnson. At the time police began to hit him, he had already been patted down for weapons and was standing against a wall looking at his phone. The video shows multiple police<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/D1BY7UxvaZU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Arizona Police Officers On Leave After Video Showed Them Punching Unarmed Man http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/D1BY7UxvaZU/arizona-police-officers-leave-after-video-showed-them-punching-unarmed-man
57872 as http://www.gpbnews.orgThu, 07 Jun 2018 13:45:00 +0000Arizona Police Officers On Leave After Video Showed Them Punching Unarmed Man http://www.gpbnews.org/post/arizona-police-officers-leave-after-video-showed-them-punching-unarmed-manLeila Fadelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2E5d-XsqlE It happens while shopping for prom, waiting for a friend at a Starbucks, leaving an Airbnb or visiting a college — minorities, most often black people, are deemed suspicious by a white person, who calls the police. On April 12, it happened at Starbucks and it sparked a public outcry that led to the company shutting down its coffeehouses for anti-racism training. Here's the police call from that day: But the now infamous Starbucks incident is far from isolated and experts say it echoes a tragic past that excluded black people from public spaces. Since that incident there have been over a dozen more, detailed below, of people calling 911 on people of color who were seemingly just living their everyday lives. Of course, not every call to 911 involving different races is about race, but this list of incidents points to an unsettling pattern. Those affected by it call it "living while black," and it spurred a hashtag that went viral. Now, some of<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~4/4UOsLBbxg2I" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>People Who Say Police Were Called For #LivingWhileBlack Ask Congress To Acthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gpbnews/LawOrdRSS/~3/4UOsLBbxg2I/people-who-say-police-were-called-livingwhileblack-ask-congress-act
57749 as http://www.gpbnews.orgWed, 06 Jun 2018 00:27:00 +0000People Who Say Police Were Called For #LivingWhileBlack Ask Congress To Acthttp://www.gpbnews.org/post/people-who-say-police-were-called-livingwhileblack-ask-congress-act